GC 2006: Silent Hill Origins Trailer

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We brave the latest trailer for these new impressions.

By Jeff Haynes

"Something has changed ... permanently." These ominous words closed a rather disturbing new trailer for Silent Hill: Origins at this year's German Games Convention. While information has been stretched out over numerous months about the portable horror title (which is supposed to answer a lot of questions about the series), Konami's trailers have been extremely effective in capturing the nightmarish mood that the series is known for.

Apart from showing Travis O'Grady, the protagonist driving his truck down the road, the game showed off a number of various environments. In particular, the trailer highlighted a place known as Alchemilla Hospital, which appeared to be particularly rundown and full of nasty creatures, including the monsters hanging from meat hooks that we were shown at E3. However, the trailer today also showed off Travis striking back at these beasts with a sledgehammer, smashing them into the skull (when the creatures had heads.)

Travis will be in plenty of strange halls in SIlent Hill: Origins.

Travis was also shown running through the streets of Silent Hill, including parks, a cemetery with Victorian houses, and even towards a movie theater advertising Hamlet and something called the Nightmare Caf&#Array;. But the trailer also showed Travis quickly being shuttled from the real world to the strange otherworld of Silent Hill. While this could simply be a matter of clever video editing, it does raise the question of just how quick and subtle the appearance of the horrific version of the town might be. If Travis is simply running along a city street and then suddenly is transported into a long, decrepit hallway, you can't help but wonder what that would do to a man's psyche. Considering that Konami has already released that Travis has had mental issues in the past, the trailer could be revealing a new, more malevolent facet of the town that's playing on his sense of reality.